DAN SHECHTMAN

Distinguished Technion Professor The Philip Tobias Chair Department of Materials Engineering Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000 Israel

Born: January 24, 1941, Tel Aviv, Israel Family Status: Married + 4

Address: Department of Materials Engineering Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel.

Education: B.Sc. - Technion 1966, Mechanical Engineering. MSc. - Technion 1968, Materials Engineering. Ph.D. - Technion 1972, Materials Engineering.

Member, Israel Academy of Sciences Member, National Academy of Engineering (USA)

Academic Appointments: 1998 - present Distinguished Professor of the Technion. 1986 - 1998 Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa. 1997 - present Visiting Professor, UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland. 1989 - 1997 Visiting Professor, Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 1984 - 1986 Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Haifa, Israel. 1981 - 1989 Visiting Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 1977 - 1984 Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel. 1975 - 1977 Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel. 1972 - 1975 National Research Council, Post Doctoral Research Associate, Aerospace Research Laboratories, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Significant studies: 1. Microstructure and mechanical properties of titanium aluminides. 2. Microstructure and properties of rapidly solidified metallic alloys. 3. The discovery of the Icosahedral Phase, the first quasi-periodic phase, its crystallography and some of its properties. 4. Nucleation and growth of CVD diamond films. 5. Development of new magnesium alloys.

Prizes and Awards: 2000 Elected Honorary member of the French Physical Society 2000 The Muriel & David Jacknow Technion Award for Excellence in Teaching 2000 Elected member of the American National Academy of Engineering. 2000 The Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 1999 The Wolf Prize in Physics. 1998 Elected Honorary Member of ISIS-Symmetry. 1998 Appointed a Distinguished Professor of the Technion. 1998 The Israel Prize in Physics. 1997 Elected Honorary Member of IMRS (Indian Materials Research Society). 1996 Elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences. 1993 The Weizmann Science Award. 1990 The Rothschild Prize in Engineering. 1989 The Philip Tobias Chair. 1988 The New England Academic Award of the Technion. 1987 The International Award for New Materials of the American Physical Society. 1986 The Physics Award of the Friedenberg Fund for the Advancement of Science and Education.

Papers in Refereed Journals: 68

Papers in Published Proceedings: 32

Chapters in Books: 5

Book edited: 1

Professional Activities: Over 200 invited talks at scientific meetings and universities worldwide.

Member of the following societies:

Israel Crystallography Society (Honorary Member). Israel Society for Microscopy (Honorary Member) ISIS-Symmetry -honorary Member (Honorary Member) IMRS - Indian Materials Research society (Honorary Member) IMS - Israel Metallurgical Society Israel society of crystal growth ASM - American Society for metals